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1-108 - Toward Understanding Heterogeneity in Adolescent Trauma Experiences and Later Adjustment Outcomes

Thu, March 21, 12:30 to 2:00pm, Hilton Baltimore, Floor: Level 1, Latrobe

Session Type: Paper Symposium

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Exposure to traumatic events in childhood, such as abuse, witnessing violence, or experiencing a natural disaster, has been established as a predictor of later internalizing and externalizing problems (e.g., Jackson et al., 2014; Rubens et al., 2018). However, research also demonstrates that there is variability in how youth respond to these experiences that may depend on a variety of factors, such as qualitative differences in their trauma experiences, family characteristics, or how caregivers help them to cope with these experiences (e.g., Bonanno et al., 2010; Masten & Narayan, 2012). The papers in this symposium use a diverse set of research methodologies and analytic methods to examine heterogeneity in both the trauma experiences and the long-term adjustment of trauma-exposed youth. The first paper examines child maltreatment in a sample of youth in foster care, finding that severity, frequency, and type of maltreatment interact to predict later adjustment. The second paper uses a person-centered latent profile analysis to identify profiles of trauma experiences in an at-risk sample of young adolescents and examines how these profiles predict later psychopathology. Using a prospective longitudinal design, the third paper examines how indicators of children’s neural functioning assessed prior to a hurricane may affect how children respond to this traumatic disaster. The fourth paper uses observations of caregiver-adolescent discussion of their experiences with a tornado to examine how features of their co-reminiscing may predict adolescents’ later internalizing symptoms. Altogether, these papers use a variety of methods to address multifinality in youth psychological adjustment after trauma exposure.

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